In Making War With Nature,

He Liked To Go From A To B Without Inventing Letters Between.

The Enthusiasm Geologists Show For Adding New Words To Their Conversation Is, If Anything, Exceeded By Their Affection For The Old. They Are Not About To Drop 'granite.' They Say 'granodiorite' When They Are In Church And 'granite' The Rest Of The Week.

A Writer Has To Have Some Kind Of Compulsive Drive To Do His Work. If You Don't Have It, You'd Better Find Another Kind Of Work, Because It's The Only Compulsion That Will Drive You Through The Psychological Nightmares Of Writing.

Taking Things From One Source Is Plagiarism; Taking Things From Several Sources Is Research.

Writing Is A Suspension Of Life In Order To Re-create Life